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Quilt Festival Fall 2009

I’m a little bit tardy getting to the party, but loved the Quilt Festival last spring, so I had to show-up this year too.Just call me fashionably late.

I’m pulling my quilt from the archives. I made this a couple of years ago.It has become one of my all-time favorite quilts. I smile every time I see it.

I have posted pictures of it on flickr and on this blog about a year ago, but I think that maybe only my Mom was reading it back then, so I thought I would post again. I am a bit of an American Jane (by designer Sandy Klop) junkie. All of these fabrics are from Sandy’s collections, most of them from the Peas and Carrots line.

I love the retro, feedsack/farmhouse feel of all the prints and I love the bright colors.

I originally made this quilt for the store where I work and the main reason I chose the turquoise sashing was because we had two bolts of it and I was just trying to use it up. I had planned to make one for myself with yellow sashing. But once the quilts were put together there was no comparison. The turquoise made all the other colors pop and I was in love. So I kept this one instead.

Chalk this quilt up to a happy, unexpected outcome. This experience made me wonder how many other times I’ve gone with the more conservative or same-old-plan where if I had tried the color or fabric that seemed too outlandish, I would have had a more exciting result. So moral of the story: don’t be afraid to try something new!

Thanks for stopping by! If you haven’t visited the Quilt Festivalat Park City Girl, go.You are in for a visual feast! There are links to hundreds of other beautiful quilts.

Had to show off that view of yours again!;) By the way, which way are you facing when you see that view? I&#39;m am jealous!!<br /><br />When you started telling your story about this quilt and the Am Jane fabric I all of a sudden saw back to when I was in 1st grade in Germany and we had those Dick and Jane readers…I loved those books…warm fuzzy memory…had to go make myself some hot cocoa

I made this quilt as well. It was the last quilt I made with my Mom before she died. I remember seeing it at the shop and LOVING it because of the blue sashing and secondly I loved the pictures. <br /><br />Julianna

This is a great quilt, with a great story. I, too, love those retro-looking prints and have quite a few in the stash (confession!).<br /><br />What&#39;s also intriguing about your quilt is the use of simple blocks, that is the rail fence variation and the nine-patch variation to bring in that retro feeling without hitting the viewer over the head. It tastefully says, &quot;This quilt is from

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